METROPOÈME

Sergiu Huzum

Sergiu Huzum (b. 1933 – d. 2004) graduated from the Institute of Theatre and Film Arts from Bucharest in 1956, and less than ten years later he was already a star of Studio Sahia, through collaborations with veteran filmmaker Mirel Ilieșiu, but also through his own documentaries. Cinema history remembers him especially as the DoP of Lucian Pintilie’s first films, Sunday at 6 (1966) and The Reenactment (1970). In 1963 he patented the cinematographic process of the transtrav (similar to the dolly zoom), obtained through the simultaneity of zoom and traveling. He is invited to travel to Paris with his wife, the poet Mioara Cremene, to direct Metropoème within the short-lived experimental filmmaking studio Center for Research of the French Radio-television. He decides to stay in France, where he works for a long time in television, travelling the world for his reports. In 1999 he published a book of essays written in Romanian, Subjective Objectives (Albatros Publishing House), and almost 20 years later, in 2014, The Filmmakers Union of Romania published another volume of his essays, Looking at the World Through Words, an editorial project of Ana Blandiana, Rodică Lăzărescu and Romulus Rusan.